#Caribbean articles

[fatehbaz]

[T]he Dutch Republic, like its successor the Kingdom of the Netherlands, [...] throughout the early modern period had an advanced maritime [trading, exports] and (financial) service [banking, insurance] sector. Moreover, Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery stretched over two and a half centuries. [...] Carefully estimating the scope of all the activities involved in moving, processing and retailing the goods derived from the forced labour performed by the enslaved in the Atlantic world [...] [shows] more clearly in what ways the gains from slavery percolated through the Dutch economy. [...] [This web] connected them [...] to the enslaved in Suriname and other Dutch colonies, as well as in non-Dutch colonies such as Saint Domingue [Haiti], which was one of the main suppliers of slave-produced goods to the Dutch economy until the enslaved revolted in 1791 and brought an end to the trade. [...] A significant part of the eighteenth-century Dutch elite was actively engaged in financing, insuring, organising and enabling the slave system, and drew much wealth from it. [...] [A] staggering 19% (expressed in value) of the Dutch Republic's trade in 1770 consisted of Atlantic slave-produced goods such as sugar, coffee, or indigo [...].

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One point that deserves considerable emphasis is that [this slave-based Dutch wealth] [...] did not just depend on the increasing output of the Dutch Atlantic slave colonies. By 1770, the Dutch imported over fl.8 million worth of sugar and coffee from French ports. [...] [T]hese [...] routes successfully linked the Dutch trade sector to the massive expansion of slavery in Saint Domingue [the French colony of Haiti], which continued until the early 1790s when the revolution of the enslaved on the French part of that island ended slavery.

Before that time, Dutch sugar mills processed tens of millions of pounds of sugar from the French Caribbean, which were then exported over the Rhine and through the Sound to the German and Eastern European ‘slavery hinterlands’.

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Coffee and indigo flowed through the Dutch Republic via the same trans-imperial routes, while the Dutch also imported tobacco produced by slaves in the British colonies, [and] gold and tobacco produced [by slaves] in Brazil [...]. The value of all the different components of slave-based trade combined amounted to a sum of fl.57.3 million, more than 23% of all the Dutch trade in 1770. [...] However, trade statistics alone cannot answer the question about the weight of this sector within the economy. [...] 1770 was a peak year for the issuing of new plantation loans [...] [T]he main processing industry that was fully based on slave-produced goods was the Holland-based sugar industry [...]. It has been estimated that in 1770 Amsterdam alone housed 110 refineries, out of a total of 150 refineries in the province of Holland. These processed approximately 50 million pounds of raw sugar per year, employing over 4,000 workers. [...] [I]n the four decades from 1738 to 1779, the slave-based contribution to GDP alone grew by fl.20.5 million, thus contributing almost 40% of all growth generated in the economy of Holland in this period. [...]

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These [slave-based Dutch commodity] chains ran from [the plantation itself, through maritime trade, through commodity processing sites like sugar refineries, through export of these goods] [...] and from there to European metropoles and hinterlands that in the eighteenth century became mass consumers of slave-produced goods such as sugar and coffee. These chains tied the Dutch economy to slave-based production in Suriname and other Dutch colonies, but also to the plantation complexes of other European powers, most crucially the French in Saint Domingue [Haiti], as the Dutch became major importers and processers of French coffee and sugar that they then redistributed to Northern and Central Europe. [...]

The explosive growth of production on slave plantations in the Dutch Guianas, combined with the international boom in coffee and sugar consumption, ensured that consistently high proportions (19% in 1770) of commodities entering and exiting Dutch harbors were produced on Atlantic slave plantations. [...] The Dutch economy profited from this Atlantic boom both as direct supplier of slave-produced goods [from slave plantations in the Dutch Guianas, from Dutch processing of sugar from slave plantations in French Haiti] and as intermediary [physically exporting sugar and coffee] between the Atlantic slave complexes of other European powers and the Northern and Central European hinterland.

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Text above by: Pepijn Brandon and Ulbe Bosma. "Slavery and the Dutch economy, 1750-1800". Slavery & Abolition Volume 42, Issue 1. 2021. [Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

#abolition #these authors lead by pointing out there is general lack of discussion on which metrics or data to use to demonstrate #extent of slaverys contribution to dutch metropolitan wealth when compared to extensive research #on how british slavery profits established infrastructure textiles banking and industrialisation at home domestically in england #so that rather than only considering direct blatant dutch slavery in guiana caribbean etc must also look at metropolitan business in europe #in this same issue another similar article looks at specifically dutch exporting of slave based coffee #and the previously unheralded importance of the dutch export businesses to establishing coffee mass consumption in europe #via shipment to germany #which ties the expansion of french haiti slavery to dutch businesses acting as intermediary by popularizing coffee in europe #which invokes the concept mentioned here as slavery hinterlands #and this just atlantic lets not forget dutch wealth from east india company and cinnamon and srilanka etc #and then in following decades the immense dutch wealth and power in java

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Busted! - Game-crashing bugs in big-ticket titles have players wondering: What happened to quality control in the gaming industry?

“If game publishers aren't careful, patching console games might enhance something else: the likelihood that more gamers will wait for reviews and word of mouth before blindly buying a game. After all, no one wants to pay 50 bucks for the pleasure of beta testing a shrink-wrapped game. Just ask the folks who bought Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.” (Electronic Gaming Monthly #171, Oct. 2003)

#article #egm #enter the matrix #pirates of the caribbean #tomb raider angel of darkness #bethesda #geoff keighley #bugs #retro gaming

[tractorspk]

#tractor #farming #agriculture #vehicle #machinery #equipment #masseyferguson #farm #farmers #Africa #Caribbean #TractorsPK #tractors for sale #zambia #lusaka #blog #blogger #articles

[aguacerotropical]

There’s something to be said about how gringo exceptionalism is taken to a point that they make their exceptionalism into exceptional.

thinking about my classmates saying that the USA was especially racist w/o being able to tell them that they would have a heart attack in Latin America

#like do they know most enslaved people came to LatAm and the Caribbean? #Painting the USA as exceptionally diabolic is something i once heard said as the anti imperialism of idiots #^ idk if it was an original right winger but a famous syrian leftist did write that in an article #About syrian war crimes denialism

[boricuacherry-blog]

#frankie mcintosh #article #calypso #soca #saint vincent and the grenadines #caribbean

[carjunctiongy]

#cars #usedcars #carsforsale #vehicles #japanese #automobile #automotive #importers #exporters #newcars #suv #4wd #2wd #toyota #reviews #georgetown #guyana #caribbean #carjunction #article #medium

[theinfinitedivides]

where's my Body Rhythm challenge with TVXQ!. ik no challenge actually exists but i want it to so where is it

#shinee #body rhythm #tvxq #dbsk #tvxq yunho #tvxq changmin #yunho #jung yunho #uknow #changmin #max changmin #shim changmin #kpop #so Caribbean fever has hit again and i'm vibing instead of watching My Dearest. i have to this is the only thing calming me down #after that Guardian article and fake accusation debacle with Kim Hi Eo Ra that is getting out of hand #i need those two old men carnally imagine if we could get them to do Shinee certified body rolls to that song. absolutely insane #material about to come out for the girlies Minho would lose his sh*t #they wrote this song for me so i should be able to ask for things don't you think #edit: slightly related not quite someone needs to put some melanin on Minho. preferably Caribbean but either way #drop that spice on him pls you will be doing the rest of us a great service

[thoughtportal]

We look at how the death of Queen Elizabeth II is prompting former British colonies in the Caribbean to replace the British monarch as their head of state. Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister has vowed to hold a referendum soon on whether to become a republic, and Jamaica’s ruling Labour Party also plans a vote. The Caribbean at one point formed the heart of England’s first colonial empire in North America, with millions of enslaved Africans taken to the islands, where many were worked to death. Dorbrene O’Marde, chair of the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Commission, says he is not personally mourning Queen Elizabeth’s death because her reign helped to “cloak the historical brutality of empire in this veneer of grandeur and pomp and pageantry.” We also speak with renowned Jamaican poet and musician Mutabaruka, who says the British monarchy “represents criminal activity” and that the British state needs to make reparations to former colonies like Jamaica to redress the history of abuses. “Actions speak louder than words,” he says.

#article #king charles III #king charles #british royal family #royal family #british imperialism #imperialism #colonization #colonialism #jamaica #caribbean #chattel slavery

[konekoryuugamine]

The marvels of adventure games will always come and go, but nothing stands the test of time better than a game where you can pillage, plunder, and sail the seven seas with friends. Finding these games are always a challenge, so here we have 20 pirate games with swashbuckling adventures great and small.

#sail forth #indie games #pirate games #gamersdecide #article #video games #lego pirates of the caribbean #abandon ship #salt #pillars of eternity II #adventure time : pirates of the enchiridion #adventure time #windward #blackwake #sea of thieves #blazin g sails #flinthook #one piece: pirate warriors 4 #cleo - a pirates tale #assassins creed iV black flag #gothic II #Shantae and the Pirate's Curse #Sid Meier's Pirates! #Return of the Obra Dinn #Wavetale #Secret of Monkey Island #pirates #set sail

[madkingcrowley]

my girlfriend is having a PowerPoint party for their birthday and I'm doing mine on recasting Pirates of the Caribbean as Muppets

#my post #about me #pirates of the caribbean #i also found an article about having a crush on davy jones as a 13 year old #it sounds like i wrote it

[fandom-madness69]

Can we please stop paying journalists to shit all over media??? Like this has some of the most dogshit takes I've ever seen about POTC (Pirates of the Caribbean). Can we please just all harass Screenrant and any other company that solely focuses on shitting on every time aspect of media until they stop doing this shit?

It worked to get the Sonic design redone. Why can't we do it for this?

#bad journalism #absolutely awful journalism #a fourth grader could have written this article better #pirates of the caribbean #potc

[emilyfrembgen]

Grilled Caribbean Chicken Recipe Before going on the grill, chicken is steeped in a tropical concoction of mango, ginger, lime, and orange juice.

#caribbean #recipes #marinade #robyn webb #chicken breasts #articles

[biglisbonnews]

PPP Americas 2023: Public-Private Partnerships to spur economy and sustainability PANAMA CITY, Panama – The Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group) has partnered with the government of Panama to organize the eleventh PPP Americas, the most important forum on public-private partnerships (PPP) in Latin America and the Caribbean. The theme of PPP Americas 2023 is “Partnerships with Purpose,” and it will bring together over 250 […] The post PPP Americas 2023: Public-Private Partnerships to spur economy and sustainability appeared first on Caribbean News Global. The post PPP Americas 2023: Public-Private Partnerships to spur economy and sustainability appeared first on Caribbean News Global. https://www.caribbeannewsglobal.com/ppp-americas-2023-public-private-partnerships-to-spur-economy-and-sustainability/

#Business #Caribbean News #Economy #Events / Video #Latest Articles #Panama #Editorma #Caribbean News Global

[boricuacherry-blog]

#enerolisa nunez #dominican #caribbean #latin #article #2022

[sexypinkon]

Sexypink - Repeating Islands News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts is such an intellectual and visual delight. Here is a look at one of the many great articles on the site.

#sexypink/Repeating Islands #sexypink/Art theory and practice #sexypink/Art writing #sexypink/Art articles #tumblr/news #tumblr/Christopher Cozier #tumblr/Caribbean culture #tumblr/Literature and Art

[thenationview]

Andrés Camargo, a '10' who has the 'DNA Junior'

Andrés Camargo, a ’10’ who has the ‘DNA Junior’

His mother prepared him for this moment: “Dad, you have to start thinking about what you are going to say to the press. With the three goals you’re going to score in the game, they’ll definitely want to interview you.” Perhaps her maternal instincts already gave her some clues as to what her son’s involvement might be. Doña Exilda Rosa León was not quite right in the number of goals, but she did…

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#american football #Andres Camargo #Article #barranquillera school #Caribbean champions #Junior #sport- #the herald